Now, Watch Mahabharata on YouTube!

Mahabharata has arrived on YouTube. An India-based entertainment firm on Monday announced an animated web-series based on the tales of Mahabharata.

The web series, created with the help of Grant Morrison, who earlier worked on projects like Fantastic Four and All Star Superman, is an original work created specifically for YouTube. The series, created by Graphic India, is part of efforts that Google is making to pitch YouTube as a viable alternative to traditional television.

The animated series is titled 18 Days. The first episode is available now and the rest of the episodes will be launched on YouTube in weekly instalments throughout the year. The series will be released in English, Hindi and Tamil.

"Mahabharata is an epic story and we are very excited to bring the animated version of this great Indian epic to YouTube users worldwide. Partnering with Grant Morrison and Graphic India for this will set the bar for more such high quality web original series" said Gautam Anand, director content partnerships APAC for YouTube.

A trailer for the series was posted recently to coincide with the San Diego Comic Con, a global pop-culture event.

According to Google, the animated series follows the course of the climactic war that concludes the age of a race of Supergods and begins the age of man. Graphic India is pitching it as a series that reflects the epics wars that decide the future.

"A genre mash of superhero action and mythology grounded in the all too human passions of its warriors, villains and monsters, 18 Days will rewrite the rules of epic fantasy," said Morrison. "18 Days updates and retells the timeless stories of the Mahabharata for a new audience on a whole new platform. There will be 50 episodes in the main series. Though a Graphic India official added that series would also have additional back up episodes and behind the scenes material."

Graphic India co-founder and CEO Sharad Devarajan said that he believed Morrison would reinvent the timeless tale of Mahabharata with 18 Days and make it approachable to today's audience.